gwilks98

Whenever this end user clicks on a link to an excel file in IE6, it automatically opens up instead of prompting with a choice to save or open. (It's java script, so save target as is not an option.)

Anyone know how to correct this without resetting IE defaults?

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bbrian

Try this:
http://support.microsoft.com/?scid=162059

gwilks98

Beautiful, that looks like what I was looking for. I'll try that out. (I was using a registry change to always prompt with a choice. This should work much better.)

Thanks!

Edit: bbrian, this wasn't quite what I was looking for. Thought, it is an acceptable workaround. The problem wasn't that IE was opening the file in it's own window, but that it was not prompting with an option to save instead of opening.

Someone chose to disable "Save target as" in IE across the company, so unless i can get approval to re-enable it, I needed to find out how to uncheck this.

Since IE no longer opens it in it's own window, the user has the ability to save the document using the correct (unrestricted) office program.